No one's with me on this but as a certified Hoennbag I think it's fucking weird how Sandshrew is a Gen 1 pokemon. Like no shit it's a gen 1 pokemon since everyone played gen 1 first and it's common as fuck, but to me it's just so much more fitting for Hoenn's desert region that when I played Leafgreen I couldn't reprogram my brain to think "wait Sandshrew is from Kanto?"
>>54745899Because Skarmory is a common pokemon in Hoenn whereas Gligar wasn't even in a Gen 3 handheld until Emerald